Family love was as important as love in the bottom of Nanxin's heart.
Hearing her call, the smile on Su Yi's face disappeared, "I want to relax a bit to attend your wedding, but you make me feel heavy."
Their relationship was always siblings, and it was merely because he thought they weren't siblings and made a joke out of them. However, he truly liked them and was indeed unwilling to. That was why he wanted to conceal his disappointment.
"Brother, I'm very happy that you've come. "My parents only have you and my father as their family, so thank you for not losing a single family member to me." Nanxin raised his head, his voice gentle.
Su Yi chuckled, and ruffled Nanxin's hair: "I'm going to be a wife, and I've also grown up." When she lowered her hand and saw that Nanxin's short hair was messed up by him, she felt a little awkward.
Nanxin kicked his knee, staring at him.
It was this habitual movement that seemed to have brought them closer together.
"I'm punishing you, help me get it back to its original form." Nanxin's face was filled with anger.
Su Yi was grinning from ear to ear. "Alright, brother will help you fix your hair, I guarantee that you'll be as beautiful as a fairy!"
Nanxin rolled her eyes at him, "I didn't know you knew how to fix your hair." The tone was one of disbelief, not suspicion, but utter disbelief.
Qiao Nianyu walked over, and the teasing expression on his face disappeared.
"Sister-in-law, mom told me to call you in to check if you missed something." Qiao Nianyu avoided Su Yi and said to him.
Su Yi walked up and grabbed Qiao Nianyu's wrist, his face ashen. "Qiao Nianyu, about you sleeping with me, we need to discuss this properly."
These words caused Nanxin to be stunned, he only stood to the side and distanced himself slightly from them.
"Let me go, I already explained it to you, I was wrong about someone, what exactly do you want? Do you want me to use money to compensate you for your mental loss? " Qiao Nianyu taunted him, glaring at him.
The ruckus was so loud that even the Aunt Qiao in the room heard it. She quickly came out to take a look, and upon seeing Su Yi who was pulling Qiao Nianyu, she unhappily frowned. "What are you guys arguing about?"
Qiao Nianyu suddenly restrained herself and turned into a quiet lady, "Mom, this is the person who bumped into us on Nanxin's birthday."
She wanted to hide something. The Aunt Qiao understood her daughter. She would only have this kind of expression when she did something bad and didn't want her to know about it. But today, when Mubei and Nanxin were married, she did not have the heart to question him.
Aunt Qiao retracted his gaze from Qiao Nianyu's body and fixed his gaze on Nanxin's messy short hair, "The wedding is about to start, how did it end up like this?"
When Su Yi saw that the Aunt Qiao was here, he stopped what he wanted to say and stared at Qiao Nianyu.
Nanxin was brought back to her room. She looked at her reflection in the mirror that was wearing her wedding dress and no joy appeared on her face. As time passed, worry started to appear on her face.
"Why isn't Uncle here yet?" Nanxin seemed to be muttering to himself.
Aunt Qiao was suspicious, "I called to urge Mubei just now, but he turned off his phone. But don't worry, Mubei has always been punctual when he does things. Furthermore, he got married today, so don't worry, he will definitely arrive on time. "
Qiao Nianyu looked at the time, and faintly said, "Mom, this time your son doesn't seem to be punctual. It's time for the wedding to begin. "
Hearing Qiao Nianyu's words, Nanxin's eyes became extremely cold.
"Then, I'll call Qiao Family to ask. Your grandfather's health is getting worse and worse. I was worried that Mubei still hasn't come because something went wrong with the old man again. " Aunt Qiao talked to himself, his face filled with worry.
Uncle was delayed because of Grandpa?
There was no bridegroom, so Nanxin could only wait. The second hand did not move a step, but it was all torture to her.
After half an hour, Qiao Mubei finally arrived.
Nanxin's haze had been swept away and his face was brimming with a smile, "Uncle."
"Mubei, why did you only arrive now? Hurry! The wedding has been postponed for half an hour. " The Aunt Qiao urged as he picked up the suit that was placed on the chair.
This suit was chosen by Nanxin. Qiao Mubei had always been wearing dark colored clothes, and Nanxin had chosen a white coloured suit for him.
Qiao Mubei's eyes swept across the Aunt Qiao, "Mom, you go out first."
The Aunt Qiao hesitated for a long time before going out. Qiao Nianyu followed him out as well, feeling baffled. Why did her big brother have that expression on his face when he married?
"Uncle, what do you want to say? Can't we wait until the end of the wedding?" Nanxin looked at him with a panicked expression.
"Today's wedding is off. "In the future …"
Without waiting for Qiao Mubei to finish speaking, Nanxin interrupted him and covered his ears, "No, I don't want to! "Why should it be cancelled?"
"Because …" His large palm imprisoned Nanxin and forced her to look straight at him.
Nanxin impatiently interrupted his words, "I don't want to hear the reason! I don't want to know why! " She was afraid that even if there were a thousand reasons, it would be enough: 'I don't love you'. This reason would make her collapse!
Qiao Mubei comforted her with a gentle voice, "Good girl, we still have a long time in the future, be obedient."
Her heart felt like it was being crushed by a stone and she couldn't breathe.
Gradually, she was able to breathe normally, but her heart felt as if it was being roasted by fire.
"I don't care, I don't care about anything!" Nanxin roared at the top of his lungs.
All this time, she had always kept a lot of things within her heart. She had never cried out like this before, her tears pouring down.
No matter how Qiao Mubei comforted her, she was unable to control her emotions.
Qiao Mubei looked at her, his eyes calm, and his voice deep and low, "This time, can you listen to me once and not be willful again?"
Did he think she was willful?
Nanxin cried, "I love you, but in your eyes, it has always been willfulness! But I, think that I love you, is the right thing to do in my life! "
He had always thought that she was too young to understand love, but he didn't know that she was someone who would go crazy for love.
"I know everything, I know everything. I know what happened ten years ago. I know that you came to my side to repay my gratitude. I know that my father was imprisoned and you used your connections to help my father. I know all about it! I know you can tolerate all my willfulness just to repay my gratitude. " Nanxin cried until his voice turned hoarse, and his voice became very soft, "Can you give me a chance? I will work hard to become a good Mrs. Qiao and try my best to make you fall in love with me. Can you give me a chance to be happy? "
The soft whimpers, the tears in her eyes, her humble begging, he saw.
Qiao Mubei's eyes were deep and filled with pain. She frowned for a long time before she slowly said: "Alright, I promise you."
With just that one sentence, Nanxin seemed to have been saved.
Qiao Nianyu pushed the door open, "Big bro, you guys hurry up, Mom will be taking care of the guests first. Those customers are all worried. "
"Yes." Qiao Mubei replied. Nanxin picked up the suit on the chair and pressed it down.
"Uncle, don't make the guests wait any longer. Let's go out."
Nanxin wanted to hurry up, she was afraid that her uncle would regret it even more.
Qiao Mubei couldn't do anything about Nanxin, she had already received her certificate, the wedding was something that would happen sooner or later, she didn't know why she was so agitated and wasn't willing to delay. As it turned out, he did not understand Nanxin at all.
Only Nanxin herself knew why she cared about this wedding. This wedding was to announce that she was Mrs. Qiao.
Their marriage certificate had been torn off by her, and without it, she didn't know what could prove that they were husband and wife.
She had always wanted her uncle to do something he wasn't willing to do, but she couldn't bear to let go of her uncle …
The wedding procession started, Mr Zhang held Nanxin's hand and walked step by step towards Qiao Mubei.
"From now on, I'll leave my daughter to you." Mr Zhang gave Nanxin's hand to Qiao Mubei.
Qiao Mubei's phone vibrated. He looked at the caller ID and saw that it was Liu Xu. When Nanxin saw that it was Liu Xu, his heart also started to beat slower.
Qiao Mubei answered.
"What you're trying to cover up, someone found out. Someone saw it with their own eyes. It was a woman sitting in the car. I'll help her. I know you hate to owe others. " Liu Xu's voice was cheerful.
Qiao Mubei hung up the phone and quickly left.
Looking at his determined back, Nanxin did not even give her a glance. He did not have the courage to beg her to stay behind, it was as if her body was completely drained, and she could not even take a single step. They watched his back slowly disappear from their line of sight.
The relatives and friends who came to attend the wedding were whispering.
"Is Mr. Qiao regretting her decision to marry a imprisoned daughter as his wife? This has a negative impact on our Qiao Family."
"Exactly, this wedding isn't held in the capital. It looks like it's being held in secret."
"Old Master Qiao did not come today either. Did he get sick from anger?"
"…"
Nanxin couldn't even open his mouth to refute her words because the father in front of her had collapsed.
Nanxin trembled as he squatted down to help Father Zhang, "Dad, Dad! I'm fine, don't worry, don't mind what others say. "
She knew that her father was anxious for her to have a heart attack. Her father had blamed Qiao Mubei for abandoning her.
Originally, Qiao's member was trying to soothe the mood of the guests. However, when they saw that Mr Zhang had fainted, they surrounded him.
Qiao Nianyu called the hospital and called for an ambulance.
In these last year, when Zhang Bonian was at his last breath, he looked at Nanxin with reluctance. He slowly closed his eyes.
"Dad, wake up!" Nanxin shook his body.
Only Zhang Bonian did not move, she used her hand to probe Papa Zhang's nose, and there was no breath left.
Was it because he was too greedy that he would lose everything?
Nanxin's mind went blank, and his body lost its intuition …